<s>
Pingdom	B-Protocol
AB	O
is	O
a	O
Swedish	O
website	B-Protocol
monitoring	I-Protocol
software	B-Architecture
as	I-Architecture
a	I-Architecture
service	I-Architecture
company	O
launched	O
in	O
Stockholm	O
and	O
later	O
acquired	O
by	O
the	O
Austin	O
,	O
Texas-based	O
SolarWinds	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
Pingdom	B-Protocol
was	O
launched	O
in	O
2005	O
in	O
Västerås	O
,	O
Sweden	O
,	O
but	O
only	O
became	O
popular	O
in	O
2007	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
website	B-Protocol
monitoring	I-Protocol
company	O
was	O
founded	O
by	O
the	O
Swedish	O
entrepreneur	O
Sam	O
Nurmi	O
,	O
who	O
had	O
previously	O
founded	O
Loopia	O
Web	O
Hosting	O
and	O
who	O
would	O
go	O
on	O
to	O
found	O
Dooer	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
June	O
2014	O
,	O
the	O
software	O
company	O
was	O
acquired	O
by	O
the	O
Austin	O
,	O
Texas-based	O
software	O
developer	O
SolarWinds	B-Operating_System
for	O
$103	O
million	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
May	O
2017	O
,	O
SolarWinds	B-Operating_System
acquired	O
the	O
San	O
Francisco-based	O
company	O
Scout	O
Server	O
Monitoring	O
and	O
merged	O
the	O
software	O
with	O
Pingdom	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
Pingdom	B-Protocol
has	O
servers	B-Application
located	O
in	O
several	O
countries	O
used	O
to	O
measure	O
the	O
latency	O
of	O
the	O
websites	O
it	O
monitors	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
can	O
report	O
whether	O
a	O
website	O
is	O
down	O
due	O
to	O
network	O
splits	O
or	O
failure	O
in	O
DNS	O
servers	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Pingdom	B-Protocol
functions	O
by	O
regularly	O
accessing	O
websites	O
to	O
check	O
whether	O
the	O
site	O
is	O
accessible	O
to	O
users	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Pingdom	B-Protocol
also	O
generates	O
a	O
report	O
detailing	O
how	O
long	O
the	O
site	O
was	O
down	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Pingdom	B-Protocol
publishes	O
reports	O
on	O
global	O
Internet	O
use	O
and	O
country-specific	O
data	O
on	O
visitors	O
to	O
popular	O
websites	O
like	O
Facebook	B-Application
.	I-Application
</s>
<s>
In	O
2012	O
,	O
Pingdom	B-Protocol
was	O
able	O
to	O
determine	O
that	O
about	O
43.1	O
%	O
of	O
the	O
top	O
1	O
million	O
websites	O
were	O
hosted	O
in	O
the	O
United	O
States	O
,	O
compared	O
to	O
the	O
31.3	O
%	O
hosted	O
in	O
all	O
of	O
Europe	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
also	O
publishes	O
Royal	O
Pingdom	B-Protocol
,	O
a	O
blog	O
on	O
a	O
variety	O
of	O
Internet-related	O
topics	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Royal	O
Pingdom	B-Protocol
is	O
frequently	O
cited	O
in	O
academic	O
publications	O
and	O
by	O
media	O
organizations	O
as	O
a	O
source	O
of	O
statistics	O
on	O
a	O
variety	O
of	O
websites	O
.	O
</s>
